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Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction

Louisiana rates for HCPCS 11920

Places colored pigment into the skin to disguise a patch whose color differs from the skin around it, such as a pale scar, a burn, or an area that has lost its pigment. The pigment is deposited with fine needles and stays in the skin. This covers treatment of a small area.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Medical Tattooing for Skin Color Correction cost?

$224

Typical negotiated rate. In Louisiana, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $224 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $166 from a physician practice, and about $1,175 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$166$129 to $224
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$1,175$501 to $2,512

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $224 to $3,467Professionalmedian $166 · 10th to 90th $110 to $240
$100$200$500$1K$2K$5Kfacility $1,175professional $166

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$223.87
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$3,548.13
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$114.82
Median
$165.96
Typical High
$239.88
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$263.03
Median
$537.03
Typical High
$1,202.26
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$117.49
Median
$186.21
Typical High
$223.87
Christus
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$39.81
Median
$39.81
Typical High
$39.81
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$104.71
Median
$177.83
Typical High
$281.84
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$251.19
Median
$758.58
Typical High
$1,621.81
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$102.33
Median
$162.18
Typical High
$263.03

Where Louisiana sits

The same service costs 9.3 times more in California than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Louisiana· 19th of 51

$224

CA $1,349DC $145

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.